Matching Unstructured Data and Structured Data
Published in TDAN.com July 2006 For years the worlds of structured systems (transactions, data bases, Oracle, DB2, Teradata, et al)…
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Self Organizing Maps (SOM’s) – Visualizing Textual Data
Published in TDAN.com July 2006 For years there has been visualization of numeric data. Business Intelligence has pie charts, colored…
Are You Stuck In BI Adolescence?
Published in TDAN.com April 2006 Most organizations today are stuck in the adolescent phase of business intelligence (BI). They’ve built…
Eye on TDWI – Las Vegas – February 2006
Whoa doggie! Las Vegas has always been a big draw for TDWI, but this year the conference really hit it…
The Role of Data Dictionary in a Package Environment
Published in TDAN.com January 2006 BACKGROUND IT leaders from enterprises around the world have realized that acquiring and implementing commercial…
The Database Report – January 2006
Here we are at the end of another year. And it is time to analyze the fourth quarter of 2005.…
Security and Privacy of Data
This is an excerpt from Data Strategy by Sid Adelman, Larissa Moss and Majid Abai, published by Addison Wesley. This…
TDWI World Conference Fall 2005 – Exhibit Hall Highlights
The conference featured 43 exhibition booths. The exhibit hall was open Tuesday (November 1) from 11:15 am to 2:15 pm…
Eye on TDWI – Orlando – November 2005
See also: TDWI Orlando Exhibit Hall Highlights Anticipation I was wondering what to expect from the weather as I was…
Data Rich, Information Poor? Focus On Right Metrics
Published in TDAN.com October 2005 On a recent flight to Washington DC, I was seated next to an executive who…